St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-28

would die in six months and go to hell,
wouldn't feel bad about that? If you want
| TO be Christian be one, if not stay out; we
| nave got enough of that sort in now, and
more than enough, more than we can do any
thing with" Laughter. Isaid, what sort
OF member of the church do you want to
oe?' He said, II want to be good one."
| well" L said, Il will just pick
out three members-you know them all
there's old Brother Green, how would you
like to be like him, he wont pray in his
| family. Well, said he, it is a disgrace to a
muu that he should be asked that l said
there is Brother Johnson, he will pray some
times and sometimes he wont; sometimes he
! viii come to Sunday school, sometimes he
wont, and sometimes he will pray in his
1amlly and sometimes he wont; sometimes
come, IL he don't he won't How would you
like to be like Brother Johnson? He sad
Don't throw ali those members up to me.
| Well, sand l, there's DIR. Watts, he will pray in
| sunday school, good class leader, pays liber-
ally TO every cause. how would you like to be
| ike Dr. Watts? Oh, yes, he Said Jones, that
is the member would like to be. Yes, said
| l, you want to live like Green, you old rascal,
and you want to be like DR.. Waits. There IS
the secret of the whole business. Every one
wants to live like tenth rate member and be
like frst-class member. Oh, my brother.
| there is but one
| WISE, RIGHT ADJUSTMENT
toward God, and that is to give yourself un-
reservedly to God Internationally, and let
MIN be your Lord and master all the balance
| or your life. We are not our own, but we are
bought with price. Well, then, that next
verse: "Be not confOrmed TO this world, but
be transformed by the renewing of your
mind" Now, brother, if God has a quarrel
with the church and the men of the nine
teenth century, it is right at this point; it is
because we arc conformed to the world. You
| go to the theater and dance with the world !;
| w q III 6pi N W 4
| the world, and you have just one more thing
| 10 40, and that is to go to hell with the world.
| W heneyer you see the world go one way you
go this way. Just do things precisely unlike
this world does them and you will please God
| nlnety-nine times out of one hundred. This
world will drink whisky and break the
Sabbath day. and play cards and
visit theaters and all that sort
of thing. Well, brother, don't PLAY cards
| You go over there and read your bible while
they are playing cards. You go to prayer
| meeting while the others are at the theater.
You go over yonder and help that poor fam
lily, while they are over here looking at the
| base ball game. When the devils crowd goes
| one way you go the other way every time and
| you will hit it a thousand and one times in a
| thousand, may be. One of the governors of
our state, his wife was q country woman, a
| good sensible woman. but had never been to
| town much. When he was elected to gov
ernor they moved to town. And when they
| moved to town she started childrenS school.
She had red fiannels on her children, on her
girls, and the other children called them
crackers and
MADE FUN OF THEM.
And her children went home and said:
Mamma, we are not going back TO school.
All the children in town are laughing at US
| and say this aint the fashion now" And the
good mother looked at her children and said:
Children, your mother never came here to
follow the fashion, or to get into fashion, but
came here to set the fashion and to make the
balance follow It." We Christians have been
| following in the fashion of the world and the
steps of the world. Let us unite and set the
| fashion and make the rest of them come up
| to it. Let US make it fashionable to have
| family prayers and fashionable to visit the
| SICK, and fashionable to work for God and
souls, and fashionable to read the Bible. Let
US set the fashion aud make the world follow
| 1t. We have followed the world until we
| have followed it nearly to hell. Oh, Lord
God, help the world to turn around
| in righteousness until they follow US
not n eonformea tns way to to this Wora Bs
out of the habits of the world, get out of the
life of the world, get out of the currents of
the world be unlike the world. A wise ad-
| justment towords this world. know this
| much, when a man makes up his mind he is
| going to be a Christian the world will let him
alone; they don't bother him. 1t was in my
| OVID town a countryman came in several years
ago and he was going round Dragging ut was
close to eection) he was Methodist steward,
but he lived in the country, He went
| around Dragging that he had been treated
4 five times that morning; that five of the can
A didates had asked him to drink with him.
4 That day he slipped out of the church when
| was preaching. And said, l heard a mean
old hypocrte tell how he had been invited
| FIVE times to drink with the candidates; and
| whenever man, not a member of the church.
| ma fO faly
| drink with you that person has got you down
as hypocrite. And if you take a drink
| with him they have got you down right. Do
| you see the point?
NEVER GOT so Low
| in my life as a Christian, as to have anybody
! invite me to take drink; never got low
| enough down to have person invite me to
| ball; never got low enough down to have q
| person invite me to go to the theater with
| him, thank God. If you are in earnest, and
people know it, they amt going to invite you
| to these places. brightly adjusted towards
| this world When man makes I'D his
| mind to be q Christian and to be religious. the
| world tidns it out and don't bother him; the
! world will get out of your way. They know
| you won't do to fool with. Now, take this
| little incident home with you. In Atlanta,
| Ga, one of the churches held consecrated
meeting, and among others mother came
ND and knet down and made complete,
eternal surrender of herself to God. She was
made happy. AS soon as the service was
| dismissed she went down to her home; her
| husband was down at his store, and the
| children were at school. And she walked
| into her house and met the house girl. She
walked up to her and said: "Sally, have
| had great experience. You didn't know
| that had been a Methodist. l have Deen
| the poorest Christian that ever walked the
| earth almost; but, Sally. have start ed this
morning to live for God and Heaven, and
| want you to promise you will help me; don't
| cross me any way; let me get settled down
10 these things and don't put anything III
| my way for q week or two. Let me get set
tied Gown to these things before you inter-
| fere with me in any way, for the Lord knows
| | am as frail as a bruised reed.'' Sally said;
'sYes, nam; 1 will promise you I'll do my
| best not to cross you, nor to put any thing in
| your way and furthermore, am NJ ethOdist
| myself, and I've been
| A MIGHTY POOR ONE
and want you to promise me that you will
| help me as we'll as yourself Aud they
pledged each other to help each other. Then
| she went back to the kitchen and saw Aunt
| Sophie. the cook, who was cooking. You are
a Christian but you don't know whether 1
| have been a member of the church or not.
| and Aunt Sophie, 1 came here TO ask you to
| help me. / am as frail as a bruised reed and
| l have giveE myself to God fully this MORN
| ing and intend to live aud die a consecrated
| Christian. Sophie said will do my best
And directly the children came running in
| from school and size called them around her
and said, children, you have had the poorest
mother any children ever had; have run
| after the world and things of the world but
your mother has resolved upon better life
| and to give her life to God, and now she wants
| you to kueel and wants to consecrate her
whole family to God. She wants to live for
\ God now and heaven. Don't do anything TO
4 throw i1nother off the ctrack and
4 She gave her children to God. When
her husDand came home she took him into
the parlor alone and took him by the lapel
! of his coat and said, we have both been mem.